No Visa, No World Gathering

We start our reporting about the World Latin and the two World Championships in Showdance with what are bad news indeed. Visa issuance has unfortunately been an issue for some who had planned to be in Chengdu, CHN, this weekend.

22/09/2016 read more ...

With A View To Chengdu

Only a few more days until the 2016 World Latin and the two World Championships ShowDance get underway in Chengdu, CHN. The upcoming weekend, 24 and 25 September, will be taken up by three events that you are able to follow from the comfort of your home.

20/09/2016 read more ...

I Am A Refugee

We start into a week that will be concluded by two World Championships ShowDance with a look back at the winning performance in Saturday's WDSF PD European Latin ShowDance in Sibus, ROU: Kathrin Menzinger and Vadim Garbuzov, AUT, as "Refugees."

19/09/2016 read more ...

A Long Time Coming

If there ever was a project that fell behind the power curve, it must be this one: Standard and Latin versions of MY VERY BEST 2015 were supposed to be released on DVD in May. Nearly five months later we are proud to offer the two compilations through Vimeo on Demand.

16/09/2016 read more ...

Across The USA

The six-part "World DanceSport GrandSlam Series" that was produced by WDSF and USA Dance has started to air across the U.S. Public broadcasting stations in nearly all major markets show the programmes during primetime hours.

16/09/2016 read more ...

The Perfect Ten

Canadians Anton Belayev and Antoaneta Popova, who just started their rookie year as professionals, win all ten dances of the 2016 PD World Cup Ten Dance in Bratislava, SVK. Heidi Goetz reports about their exploit in the first PD competition.

15/09/2016 read more ...

Full Day of Lectures 17/08/2010

IDSF Adjudicators Somewhere around 60 IDSF Chairpersons came to Stuttgart to attend this year`s Congress at the German Open Championship (GOC) Hotel Maritim. The IDSF President Carlos Freitag and the IDSF Sports Director Marco Sietas welcomed the attendants and were pleased with the great interest. They reminded everybody of the great importance and responsibility of the Chairperson's role in a competition.

20 new applicants came for their first Congress and did their exams.

First item of the day was the lecture about Electronic Scrutineering and Electronic Judging of IDSF Competitions.

Ralf Pickelmann, experienced in developing scrutineering systems and responsible for the scrutineering team at the GOC, talked about

tasks of the organizers and scrutineers
tasks of the chairpersons.

And for both cases he addressed

tasks before the beginning of the competitions
during the rounds
execution of the finals
tasks after the competition.

After all these explanations the attendants had the possibility to work with the system, organising a competition within the system. It was really interesting to see, how the system works and to learn about the work and tasks of the scrutineers.

Find detailed information on www.tbw.de/rpcs

IDSF Sports Director Marco Sietas added in his lecture more information about duties of the chairperson

Granting exemptions, the “star” regulation ...
Sometimes this is a difficult situation to handle. When do “star” couples do have to appear at the competition? As there is no regulation at the moment and different opinions about the matter, the Sports Commission will deal with that question and publish the result as soon as possible.
Check the competition data ...
Be aware of the obligations of an organiser to the Chairman (list of entries, contact details of the organiser) ...
Code of Conduct for Adjudicators: act and behave according to the regulations, the responsibility for that is with the Chairperson
Organisation of the heats and rounds

Sietas also reminded of some interesting questions and changes in the Competition Rules:

A summery of Rule 8 : What does an organiser have to pay to couples, adjudicators and chairpersons
Sponsors: Four labels are allowed for one couple : 3 for men, 1 for ladies
Break between the rounds is min 20 minutes
Chairperson's Report after the competition

Natasa Ambroz, IDSF Education Director, talked about the Dress Regulations.

The couples have to present their dress to the chairman if they change during competition.
Definition of “skin colour” ...
Restrictions for Juveniles and Junior I ...

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